My point, Atom, is that science and history don't have a predisposition against the supernatural. They have a preconception against what's not proven.
I mention the Placebo Effect because, on the surface, it sounds like New Age woo. Your attitude can affect whether or not you recover from an illness? Really? Yes, really. Wow, OK then, let's study this further and factor this effect in to all our medical reviews of the effectiveness of medicine.
If the Resurrection really were real, if there are multiple independent attestations of the dead coming back to life, if there were witnesses to zombies of dead saints walking the earth, historians would not be quick to discount that evidence. The fact is there is no proof of the miracles or events in the life of Jesus nor any attestations of it until at least decades after the supposed events from Christian sources and even these are hearsay and/or anonymous accounts.
I mention the Placebo Effect because, on the surface, it sounds like New Age woo. Your attitude can affect whether or not you recover from an illness? Really? Yes, really. Wow, OK then, let's study this further and factor this effect in to all our medical reviews of the effectiveness of medicine.
If the Resurrection really were real, if there are multiple independent attestations of the dead coming back to life, if there were witnesses to zombies of dead saints walking the earth, historians would not be quick to discount that evidence. The fact is there is no proof of the miracles or events in the life of Jesus nor any attestations of it until at least decades after the supposed events from Christian sources and even these are hearsay and/or anonymous accounts.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist